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“We Do What We’re Told”

“Just Following Orders”

The following is a great video showing how people are easily duped by a total stranger into stalking or harassing another total stranger. It is related to the Milgram’s “Obedience to Authority” experiment in that it shows how easily people can be manipulated by those they perceive to have authority. The show at the following link is an episode of “What Would You Do?” with John Quinones. I thought about this video when I saw a stranger in my neighborhood talking to a neighbor, & pointing at my house. This is what Organized Stalking & Electronic Harassment may be (at least partially) about:

Both the original Milgram’s Obedience to Authority experiment & the Derren Brown experiment proved that over 50% of the test subjects were willing to administer lethal shocks to the “learners”, simply because they were told to, by someone with perceived authority.

If you are familiar with the tendency of the “New Age Movement” toward genocide, you may be interested in the lyrics at the end of the Peter Gabriel song entitled, “We Do What We’re Told” (Milgram’s 37)” which was inspired by the original Milgram’s experiment (link to video below):